forstraught
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English forstraught, equivalent to for- + straught (“stretched”). Compare bestraught, distraught, etc. More at for-, straught.
Adjective
editforstraught (comparative more forstraught, superlative most forstraught)
- (obsolete, rare) Distracted.
- 2009, My Lord John[2], page 37:
- It was enough, Johanna said, to make the sely children forstraught.